I am a Big Player
Chapter 99 - 98, Not very skillful_1

Chapter 99: 98, Not very skillful_1

There was such a song, which, like South of South Mountain, circulated only in small circles with low diffusion, before anyone else covered it.

However, as soon as someone covered it, the song instantly became a hit throughout Capital and its surrounding areas!

This song was Song Dongyang’s Miss Dong.

It seemed to have caught fire starting with a boy’s cover during a "Super Boy" talent show, and before long, it immediately became a song that many young people in China murmured in their mouths.

Was it suitable for Yang Xi to sing? It was.

If Song Dongyang, the big guy himself, sang it, it would obviously make people feel that it was a song written for some girl in his heart, but the lyrics had another characteristic—if a girl sang it, the song would seem like it was expressing a little girl’s own feelings, flowing smoothly from her lips.

Miss Dong

You have never forgotten your smile,

Even though you, like me,

Long to grow old.

Miss Dong

You are beautiful when the corners of your mouth turn down,

Just like the clear water

Beneath Anhe Bridge.

Miss Dong

You put out the cigarette,

Speaking of the past,

You say that the first half of your life should just be like this.

When Ren He wrote down these lyrics, he subconsciously felt that having Yang Xi sit quietly somewhere and tell such a melancholic story would also be nice, as if narrating the girl’s own listless days from the first half of her life, including the love that she encountered but could not obtain.

Interesting!

However, Ren He wondered if he should change Miss Dong to Miss Yang, but then he felt that his own music theory level was just about recalling and writing musical notation from memory, so it was better not to tamper with someone else’s work, to avoid making a fool of himself.

But he did change the ’Dong’ character in Miss Dong to ’understand,’ to make "Miss Understand."

It was like mocking himself for thinking he understood everything when he was young, only to suddenly turn around and realize he had missed so much.

It was ultimately better than directly calling her Miss Dong, Ren He worried that Yang Xi might ask who Miss Dong was, wondering if it was a song he wrote for a girl with the surname Dong... That would be a disaster, because the emotions in the song were very abundant.

Such a misunderstanding was absolutely not desirable...

No sooner had he finished writing Miss Dong than the Divine Punishment System task arrived, always more punctual than anything else: "Task: Climb Kailai Great Hotel with your bare hands, without using any external objects on the wall. Deadline: One week. Punishment for failure: Host will go bald."

Ren He was totally messed up at that moment. Let’s not even talk about the difficulty of the task; he just felt that the Divine Punishment System’s punishments were getting weirder and weirder. What is this all about?!

Bald?! Like that middle-aged Mediterranean bald spot? So, if I don’t complete the task, I’ll have kidney deficiency at 16?

Although the punishment of this task didn’t seem severe, and even if he went bald, he could cover it with a hat, Ren He noticed a very important feature this time—the lack of a time limit for the baldness punishment!

For example, the punishment for frequent urination had a time limit of one month, but this baldness thing didn’t mention any time frame at all... it might be for life... Can you wear a hat for the rest of your life? Obviously not...

Looking at the task again, it was clear that his cunning approach had somewhat displeased the Divine Punishment System, but since it hadn’t made the rules clear previously, there was no helping the fact that Ren He had exploited the loophole. So, the System simply issued another task...

Alright, if climbing it is, then climbing it is. Yesterday, Ren He had observed closely during the task completion process that there was actually a steel frame structure between each glass wall of Kailai Great Hotel that could be used to rest his feet.

The only thing that made Ren He hesitate was... would he run into that young man again?

After letting the air out of his car tires and beating him up yesterday, things would surely be awkward if they met again... But after thinking about it, Ren He figured that if the other guy was still there, spying and surveilling, then it would be even better to confront him—Ren He was determined to beat the crap out of him!

In the evening, Ren He went to Yang Xi’s home again. He was about to take his guitar to the rooftop when Yang En called out to him, "It’s too cold; just practice at home, and we’ll eat after you’re done."

Yang Xi had yet to react, but Ren He understood right away. First, it was out of concern since it was indeed very cold outside, and second, it was to keep Ren He, the young man, within his sight, knowing he wouldn’t dare do anything overboard.

However, Ren He didn’t plan to do anything anyway, so he openly stayed at home, practicing the guitar with Yang Xi as well as teaching her the new song "Miss Dong."

While cooking in the kitchen, Yang En could hear the sound of their guitars and their singing, reminiscing about his own young days filled with a passion for rock music and occasionally missing that tearful sensation. He could play the guitar, so when he heard Ren He play, he was instantly amazed!

No wonder he could write such beautiful songs, he had to admit, the song "Go to Dali" was a perfect fit for someone like Yang En.

What is the education we all received from childhood? Study hard and serve the motherland when we grow up. Yang En felt he had fulfilled this duty. However, life doesn’t always go as expected. He resigned from his job in the Capital because he couldn’t accept the foreign policy at the time, which led to his desire for seclusion. At his level, he could refuse tasks he didn’t want to do for a mere livelihood. He’d rather take on more dangerous tasks than do something he disliked.

So the lyrics from "Go to Dali," "Are you unsatisfied with life, haven’t smiled for a long time and don’t know why," resonated deeply with him.

Honestly, he was quite impressed with the young Ren He, having mentally tagged him as "talented."

During dinner, Yang En suddenly asked, "Where did you encounter the person spying on Yang Xi yesterday?"

"Um..." Ren He paused a moment. He hadn’t told Yang Xi about it, making it difficult to explain. After all, if asked, how could he explain what he was doing on the roof of Kailai Great Hotel late at night? There was no answer.

Could he say he went up to the rooftop to admire the night view? They wouldn’t believe such nonsense!

Seeing that Ren He didn’t want to talk about it, Yang En didn’t press further on the issue and changed the topic, "Was the other person Chinese? I heard from Yang Xi that you beat him up? How was his skill?"

The questions he asked were meant to gauge who the other person could be. Yang En seemed to understand his situation clearly too. It wasn’t impossible for someone to take risks and press for information.

Ren He replied cheerfully, "Yes, he was Chinese. The guy wasn’t very skilled; I knocked him to the ground in just a couple of hits!" He thought it was good to show off a bit in front of his father-in-law to score some impression points. As for his previous suspicion about Lin Hao’s skills seeming pretty good, he selectively forgot about that—why would he elevate an enemy? That’s not the style of our party, all reactionaries are paper tigers!

Lin Hao, who was smoking in the hotel, suddenly felt an urge to vomit blood for some reason. What was happening to him—was he smoking too much, or was there some internal injury from the fight with Ren He the night before...

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Ahem, sticking to the rule of not writing more than 50 words for song lyrics, mainly because some people haven’t heard the song, including part of the lyrics for a bit of an idea